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Hundreds Visit BFC Winter BTWD Station and Attend Bike from Work Bash

Despite the chilly temperatures, BFC estimates a couple hundred of the estimated 2,000+ total BTWD participants came through our Winter Bike to Work/Wherever Day (BTWD) station on Oak Street Plaza on February 10th between 7 and 9:30 a.m. The 2,000+ participants represented a nearly a 20% year-over-year increase from 2022’s winter event, as they visited over 50 stations represented by over 100...

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2022 Annual Report

The mission/purpose of the Friends of the Fort Collins Bicycle Program, Inc., d.b.a. Bike Fort Collins is to increase participation in active transportation and advance bicycle culture and policy changes, creating safer streets and communities, while also creating an inclusive and empowering culture for all bicyclists, regardless of ability or identity. At itsessence, More Bikes. Safe...

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Intersection/Facility Focus – Survey Results: W. Mountain Avenue and N. Shields Street

In our December issue of The Pedal Post (eNewsletter), Bike Fort Collins posed the question: “Have you experienced conflict or felt unsafe while traveling through the intersection of W. Mountain Avenue and N. Shields Street?” Thank you to those who responded. Below is a recap of the results. WHAT HAPPENED? In addition, for those who reported conflict, we asked them to describe their experience....

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BFC Participating in Climate Smart and Future Ready Plan Development

BFC is excited at the invitation to be part of the Phase 3 Implementation Planning Team that has convened as part of Larimer County’s Climate Smart and Future Ready Approach and Planning Process to address climate change through mitigation and adaptation strategies intended to lessen impacts on our community members and the county’s identified priorities and aspirations.The Background In 2020,...

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Fort Collins Needs a Bike Park

Back in 2020 BFC got behind our peer organization, Overland Mountain Bike Association’s (OMBA), efforts and vision to bring a Bike Park to Fort Collins. Today anyone within Fort Collins wishing to experience a Bike Park must travel outside the area to do so, like Valmont Bike Park in Boulder. While BFC has been supporting OMBA in meetings with the city’s Parks & Recreation Department, and...

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Intersection/Facility Focus – Survey Results: S. Shields Street and W. Stuart Street

In our November issue of The Pedal Post (eNewsletter), Bike Fort Collins posed the question: “Have you experienced conflict or felt unsafe while traveling through the intersection of S. Shields Street and W. Stuart Street?” Thank you to those who responded. Below is a recap of the results. WHAT HAPPENED? In addition, for those who reported conflict, we asked them to describe their experience....

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A Very ‘Merry’ Grand Opening

Alpine Bank officially opened their first Northern Colorado branch on December 3rd, hosting and helping kick-off the Holiday Season with “Holiday Fest.” Alpine Bank Presents: Holiday Fest featured complimentary, family-friendly holiday activities such as: pictures with Santa, cookie-tasting, mistletoe-making, and prize drawings for tickets to CSU Rams, Colorado Rockies and Denver Broncos games,...

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An ‘Inside Look’ with BFC’s Resident Bike Mechanic

Guest Writer – Juliette Rule It started innocently enough for Bike Fort Collins’ resident bike mechanic Alex Hovorka. “My dad never bought me new tubes; he made me patch them,” Hovorka says. Years later, he earnestly patches flats on bikes of all kinds, many of which go to undocumented immigrants and low-income community members who don’t have access to their own bikes.  While Alex has been...

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Wish for Wheels FoCo Provides Equal Opportunity for Bicycling

If there’s one thing Harris Elementary School Principal Dr. Norma Huerta-Kelley knows, it’s that talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not.  So, as much as she can believe all kids need opportunities to find out what interests them, they don’t all get it. Bicycling is just one example, but it’s something she was able to affect this year, thanks to Bike Fort Collins’ (BFC)  Wish for...

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Nearly 300 Bikes Go To Students in 3rd Year of Wish for Wheels FoCo

Earlier this fall, Bike Fort Collins announced another joint effort with fellow nonprofit and Denver-based, Wish for Wheels to bring a new bike and helmet to every second grader in each of Poudre School District’s (PSD) five (5) Title 1 schools. Now in its third year, Wish for Wheels FoCo met its goal to fund a bike and helmet for every second-grader at Bauder, Irish, Harris, Laurel and Putnam...

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